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20-pound goldfish caught by Kentucky angler

Do you always keep a fishing rod in your car or truck? Hunter Anderson does, and it paid off when he visited a private pond and caught a 20-pound goldfish in Kentucky. […]

Hunters in Carolinas kill 149 coyotes in weekend

Hunters from across the Carolinas competed this past weekend in the sixth annual Carolina Coyote Classic. Together, they killed 149 coyotes. […]

Ross Barnett is February fave

February is one of the most-productive months to fish Ross Barnett Reservoir to catch very big and good numbers of bass. […]

5 February fishing hot spots

While most waters in Mississippi can produce outstanding fishing action in February, these five hot spots are proven producers worth a trip. […]

Live frozen gators spotted at North Carolina nature park

Alligators don't often have to worry about the water freezing around them, but they don't seem to mind it one bit. They just freeze themselves in, but keep their noses above the surface so they can breathe just fine. […]

7 steps to clean a squirrel

Here are the steps for making quick work of prepping squirrels for cooking. […]

Female poacher gets caught by Oklahoma game warden on dating app

According to the Oklahoma Game Wardens Facebook page, a woman got caught bragging about killing a deer to a man she was conversing with on a dating app. Little did she know the man she was chatting with was an Oklahoma game warden. […]
Virginia hunter’s Illinois non-typical is new world record
Deer still in danger in southeast Mississippi
Latest CWD whitetail discovered in Marshall County

Make jigs your February faves

Bass pro Davy Hite thinks February is the perfect month to fish a jig and crawfish trailer. […]

Paul Elias picks Ross Barnett as his favorite February bass fishing place.

Ross Barnett is February fave

February is one of the most-productive months to fish Ross Barnett Reservoir to catch very big and good numbers of bass. […]

How to fish Bogue Homa in January

January and February can be tough months for finding and catching bass, but this is one of the best times for fishing shallow Bogue Homa Lake. […]

Bass are visual predators. Fishing shallow is usually the best approach in muddy water, but bass located in deep, muddy water can still be caught.

Turbidity and bass feeding

Catching bass when the water turns muddy can be challenging. Here’s how to up your odds of catching fish. […]

Paul Elias likes to fish on Pickwick Lake when fog is rising off the water just at daylight because he knows he’ll have a busy day catching numbers of a wide variety of fish.

Fish Pickwick for rod-bending December bass

How to catch nice-sized largemouths, big smallmouths, white bass, stripers and hybrids all in the same day at Pickwick Lake in December. […]

Put a skirt on – and punch that jig

Punch skirts are popular with many bass anglers because they turn normal creature baits into essentially jig presentations. Bass angler Jeff Bruhl put the technique to good use during a September bass-fishing trip to Venice, La., just before the river jumped up due to late-summer rains in the Midwest.

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